---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-019903"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACAD"
cik: "0001070494"
company_name: "ACADIA PHARMACEUTICALS INC"
filed_at: "2024-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T12:47:33.109319+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Acadia EVP, General Counsel Austin Kim departs; transition period

## Summary
- Austin D. Kim, Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary, leaves Acadia to pursue other opportunities.
- Mr. Kim will remain a non-executive employee during a transition period to assist with orderly handover.
- No successor has been named as of the announcement date (January 30, 2024).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-019903
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACAD
- cik: 0001070494
- company_name: ACADIA PHARMACEUTICALS INC
- filed_at: 2024-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070494/000119312524019903/0001193125-24-019903-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070494/000119312524019903/d113006d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-019903
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-019903.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-019903.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Austin D. Kim resigned as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at ACADIA PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
  source text: On January 30, 2024, Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Austin D. Kim, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070494/000119312524019903/0001193125-24-019903-index.htm

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